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Wednesday, November 5, 2014

Obama's Revenge

By Alan
Caruba

The
Democratic Party that supported President Obama’s agenda for the past six years
was dramatically rejected in the midterm elections and the message for the new
Republican-controlled Senate and House is to aggressively take action on
stalled legislation to improve the economy and address other issues that have
suffered neglect.

The GOP is
going to be up against the revenge Obama will take on America in the remaining
two years. The midterms will not generate any humility in Obama; only anger and
resentment.

Republicans
were not elected to “work with” Obama. They were elected to stop his agenda and
actions that have been harmful to the nation. The big question coming out of
this electoral mandate is whether the inside-the-beltway Republicans in
Washington will do what the voters want.

Obama
promised a “transformation” of America, a nation dedicated to individual
freedom and liberty, and it has taken this long for many to realize that his definition
of transformation was an ever-increasing Big Government to control every aspect
of our lives:

# the
education of our youth who lack knowledge of civics, math, and science,

# the
deprivation and reduction of access to vital sources of energy,

# the
refusal to protect U.S. sovereignty by ignoring our immigration laws and border
security,

# the
reduction of our military power to levels rivaling pre-World War Two,

# the
failure to resist the growth of Islamic fanaticism,

# the
historic and dangerous increase of our national debt,

# the
failure to take fundamental steps to revive the economy by cutting taxes and
reducing regulations,

# the
destruction of our market-based healthcare system.

Obama will
take the electoral rejection very personally and, as we have seen in his
contempt for working with Congress and his smears of the Republican Party, no
one should doubt he will use the remainder of his term in office to wreak as
much damage as possible; to prove he is right and the rest of the nation is
wrong.

Much of
what he will do was put off until after the midterm elections because he knew
the level of rejection would be even greater. Now he is free to misuse
“executive orders” unless the new Congress takes steps to defund and
legislatively stop them. Investigations into the scandals that have become
synonymous with his administration must be vigorously pursued.

What can
we anticipate?

Obama will
do everything he can to leave American vulnerable to increased illegal
immigration including a rumored amnesty that would provide work permits and
green cards to millions who would compete with jobless natural born and
naturalized Americans. He has already refused to spend funds that have been
allocated to secure our borders.

When
Attorney General Eric Holder exits the Department of Justice expect Obama to
nominate someone even more radical and divisive.

In the
next two years you can expect the Environmental Protection Agency, already
producing more regulations than any other element of the government, to go into
overdrive to shut down as many power plants as possible, reducing the
production of electricity on which the nation depends.

Obama has
done little to respond to the growing global Islamist movement, showing favor
to terrorist groups such as Hamas, but his greatest effort has been to provide
Iran with the approval to advance its nuclear weapons capability by opening
negotiations that, if agreed to, would put it within mere months of being able
to put nuclear warheads on missiles and in bombs. It would change the balance
of power in the Middle East and threaten the rest of the world.

Expect
Obama to try to close Guantanamo despite legislation forbidding this action. In
keeping with his tilt toward Islam, he has already released five Taliban
leaders in exchange for an alleged U.S. Army deserter. Others who were released
rejoined the Islamic holy war.

He will,
of course, do everything he can to protect his namesake legislation, the
Affordable Patient Care Act otherwise known as ObamaCare. It must be dismantled
before it does even more harm to the nation’s healthcare system. He has waited
until after the midterms for Americans to learn that their ACA premiums will
rise dramatically. Ultimately, it must be repealed.

In these
and many other ways, he can continue to harm our national interests. The one
prediction that can be made with certainty is that he will spend even more time
playing golf and indulging the many perks of the office.

About Me

I am and have been for a long time a writer by profession. I have several books to my credit and my daily column, "Warning Signs", is disseminated on many Internet news and opinion websites, as well as blogs. In addition, I am a longtime book reviewer and have a blog offering a monthly report on new fiction and non-fiction.